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Hope Rekindled: A Comprehensive Analysis of Nigeria’s Nationhood Challenges and How To Overcome Them
Hope Rekindled: A Comprehensive Analysis of Nigeria’s Nationhood Challenges and How to Overcome Them, is a voluminous book of over 800 pages organized into four broad sections – A Nation on His Knees, Reversing Economics of retrogression, The Quest for Justice, Equity and Peace and Rebirth of a Nation – of independent modular chapters that time-pressed readers could flip through as their interest dictates.
The author was unsparing in the first part of the book in which to be precise he described Nigeria in the first chapter as “a sleeping giant,” noting with regret that “the country is still ranked as a developing country with many indices of development abysmally looking downwards and getting lower.
To all effects, the education system has collapsed. The hospitals are more harbingers of death than solace due to the lack of equipment and the required resources to run them and the infrastructure are deteriorating. Today, the young men and women are neither barely-educated nor skilled, and as a consequence, embark on crime as a means of survival.
“Aside becoming tools in the hands of mischief-makers, they also constitute a safety and security challenge to the nation. Some external commentators have called Nigeria a failed or failing state.
Nigerians know that the public school systems have failed, the transportation system is inadequate and the power supply is unstable, which in itself is indicative of severe challenges faced with development because no nation can develop without constant energy supply.”
Title: Hope Rekindled: A Comprehensive Analysis of Nigeria’s Nationhood Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Author: Sam S.O Afemikhe
Publisher: Geko Publishing Company
Year of Publication: 2015
Reviewer: Yinka Ajayi
